Half Of The Jobs Created During The Recovery Were Low-Paying

Half Of The Jobs Created During The Recovery Were Low-Paying: While the economy has seen decent job growth in recent months, the jobs being created may not pay very well. A new report has found that about half of the jobs created in the last three years have been low-paying, reports the Huffington Post’s Mark Gongloff: Nearly all of the 6.2 million jobs created since [...]/p

Robert Scheer: Elizabeth Warren, a Great Investment - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig

Robert Scheer: Elizabeth Warren, a Great Investment - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig
"How astonishing to have a public servant who actually cares to inform the public about the inner workings of the system of crony capitalism that has wedded big government with big business. This comes at the expense of the free market that corporate lobbyists delight in invoking as an ideal while they subvert it as a reality."

Welcome to the Brave New World of Corporatized Medicine: Just Hope You Don't Get Sick! | Alternet

Welcome to the Brave New World of Corporatized Medicine: Just Hope You Don't Get Sick! | Alternet
""Business freedom" in America increasingly means the God-given right to exploit the vulnerability of the public."

Merchant of Death Steps Down: A Look at the Deadly Work of Philip Morris International's Outgoing CEO Louis Camilleri | Alternet

Merchant of Death Steps Down: A Look at the Deadly Work of Philip Morris International's Outgoing CEO Louis Camilleri | Alternet
"This week, when tobacco giant Philip Morris International hosts its annual shareholders’ meeting in New York, the company will honor outgoing CEO Louis Camilleri for his years of service. But a look back at Camilleri’s tenure shows a trail of death and destruction unworthy of celebration."

Sen. Al Franken's Primetime Cable News Debut

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The Vicious New Bank Shakedown That Could Seriously Ruin Your Life | Alternet

The Vicious New Bank Shakedown That Could Seriously Ruin Your Life | Alternet
"Here’s the skinny: After widespread outrage over the big banks’ last crime wave against the American consumer – the “robo-signing” scam in which homeowners were hustled out of their houses by banks that sent fraudulent paperwork through the courts, they are at it again. This time, banksters are accused of helping debt collectors pursue faulty judgments against credit card customers by various dirty tricks that include – surprise! – robo-signing."

High-Speed Traders’ Campaign Contributions Shot Up 673 Percent From 2008 to 2012

High-Speed Traders’ Campaign Contributions Shot Up 673 Percent From 2008 to 2012: Campaign contributions by high-frequency trading firms have skyrocketed 673 percent since 2008, according to a new report focusing on 48 companies. These traders contributed $16.1 million during the 2012 election cycle, up from just $2.1 million in 2008. That’s not including the 93 percent spike in funds spent on lobbying Congress, the Securities and Exchange [...]/p

Corporate Win: Supreme Court Says Monsanto Has 'Control Over Product of Life' | Common Dreams

Corporate Win: Supreme Court Says Monsanto Has 'Control Over Product of Life' | Common Dreams
"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of biotech giant Monsanto, ordering Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman, 75, to pay Monsanto more than $84,000 for patent infringement for using second generation Monsanto seeds purchased second hand—a ruling which will have broad implications for the ownership of 'life' and farmers' rights in the future."

Elizabeth Warren Pushes Bill to Reduce Student Loan Interest Rates | Alternet

Elizabeth Warren Pushes Bill to Reduce Student Loan Interest Rates | Alternet
"On July 1, interest rates for student loans are set to jump from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Warren wants to reduce the rate to .75 percent for a year. A .75 interest rate is the same rate that banks pay to the federal reserve."

Sen. Warren Introduces the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act

Seven Outlandish Things The Heritage Foundation’s Remaining Employees Believe

Seven Outlandish Things The Heritage Foundation’s Remaining Employees Believe: Late in the day Friday, the Heritage Foundation announced that Jason Richwine, the co-author of their widely criticized immigration report, was no longer employed by the conservative think tank. Shortly after the immigration report was released, the Washington Post’s Dylan Matthews reported that Richwine’s PhD dissertation claimed that “new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children [...]/p

Ayn Rand USA: In 20 Years Corporate Profits Are Up 4X and Their Taxes Have Fallen by 50% -- Meanwhile the Workers' Payroll Tax Has Doubled | Alternet

Ayn Rand USA: In 20 Years Corporate Profits Are Up 4X and Their Taxes Have Fallen by 50% -- Meanwhile the Workers' Payroll Tax Has Doubled | Alternet
"Ayn Rand's philosophy suggests that average working people are 'takers.' In reality, those in the best position to make money take all they can get, with no scruples about their working class victims, because  taking, in the minds of the rich, serves as a model for success. The strategy involves tax avoidance, in numerous forms."

Is Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Turning Out to Be a Another Billionaire Conservative? | Alternet

Is Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Turning Out to Be a Another Billionaire Conservative? | Alternet
"The GOP billionaire’s club may have a new member: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg."

Sequestering Our Mothers: Spending Cuts and Effects on Women

Sequestering Our Mothers: Spending Cuts and Effects on Women
"Here is an index of how the sequester spending cuts will affect women and mothers in the United States, by the numbers."

Large Corporations Seek U.S.–European 'Free Trade Agreement' to Further Global Dominance | Alternet

Large Corporations Seek U.S.–European 'Free Trade Agreement' to Further Global Dominance | Alternet
"A corporate world order is emerging, and like any parasite, it is slowly killing off its host. Unfortunately, the "host" happens to be the planet, and all life upon and within it. So, while the extinction of the species will be the end result of passively accepting a corporate-driven world, on the other hand, it’s very profitable for those corporations and their shareholders."

Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week | Alternet

Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week | Alternet
"Republicans are trying to pass an "alternative" to overtime pay. This is really about taking away the eight-hour workday and 40-hour workweek. Will weekends be next? What about an "alternative" to paying workers at all?"

Obamacare Is Already Forcing Private Insurers To Lower Their Premiums

Obamacare Is Already Forcing Private Insurers To Lower Their Premiums: As Thursday’s development shows, that public information empowers consumers by forcing insurers to compete with one another to attract customers. Or to put it another way — and contrary to conservative fear-mongering about the law — Obamacare is working exactly as it was intended to. And with 24 million Americans expected to gain coverage through the marketplaces by 2016, that’s great news for Americans’ pocketbooks — as well as their health.

Sen. Al Franken On How The Sequester Is Hurting Everyone

Austerity: Debunked And Destroying Our Economy

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Is Cutthroat Capitalism Pushing a Growing Number of Baby Boomers to Suicide? | Alternet

Is Cutthroat Capitalism Pushing a Growing Number of Baby Boomers to Suicide? | Alternet
"In winner-take-all capitalism, if your job disappears during a massive sustained job crunch, you will have a hard time finding another one. In fact, the older you are, the more likely you are to enter the ranks of the long-term unemployed (out of work a year or longer)."

The best thing for mom this Mother’s Day: a raise | Economic Policy Institute

The best thing for mom this Mother’s Day: a raise | Economic Policy Institute
"There are plenty of working dads that would also see their pay increase if the federal minimum wage were raised—about 3 million, or 13 percent of all working fathers. Between these two groups there are 15.8 million children (21 percent of all U.S. children) with at least one parent that would get a raise under the Harkin-Miller proposal."

Dark Night of the Soul for the Post Office!

The 'Fight for 15' Grows: Fast Food Worker Strike Hits Detroit | Common Dreams

The 'Fight for 15' Grows: Fast Food Worker Strike Hits Detroit | Common Dreams
"In what could be the largest strike of its kind, hundreds of fast food workers in Detroit have walked off their jobs on Friday, echoing the rallying cry heard across the country that the workers deserve $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.

One Hospital Charges $8,000 ... Another Charges $38,000 for the Same Treatment? | Alternet

One Hospital Charges $8,000 ... Another Charges $38,000 for the Same Treatment? | Alternet
"Hospitals have gone out of their way for years to hide their procedure price lists, almost as if they were national secrets. But not anymore, because the cat is finally out of the bag."

Kings and Queens of the Supreme Court

Papantonio: How Wall Street Fuels Income Inequality

Chris Christie Vetoes Early Voting In New Jersey

Chris Christie Vetoes Early Voting In New Jersey: Yesterday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed a bill that would have allowed in-person early voting in his state for 14 days prior to elections. Christie’s veto statement claimed that expanding the franchise in this way would be too expensive and also that early voting “risks the integrity and orderly administration of our elections [...]/p

Unions to Banks: Pay Up

Unions to Banks: Pay Up
"Instead of raising taxes, labor leaders in collective-bargaining talks have a new proposal for closing state budget gaps: Go after the financial institutions that ripped off governments."

7 Financial Facts That Will Blow Your Mind | Alternet

7 Financial Facts That Will Blow Your Mind | Alternet
"What does it cost to kick the bucket? What's the best tax scam if you want to avoid jail? Here are a few financial facts that may surprise you."

St. Louis Fast Food Strike Spreads To Other Locations

St. Louis Fast Food Strike Spreads To Other Locations
"If the only jobs left are service jobs, then they have to pay enough for people to live on. In the aftermath of our economic reconstruction, where all the money goes to the people at the top, I find it heartening that so many people are organizing and demanding a living wage"

Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Republic Windows Occupation

Obama Makes His Case For Jobs While Republicans Push The Texas Model

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Why Do Students Pay More To Borrow From Gov't Than Banks?

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Deal May Get Enron CEO Out Of Prison 10 Years Early

Deal May Get Enron CEO Out Of Prison 10 Years Early
"Let's remember what this guy did: He led a company in scamming $40 billion from investors, companies and customers. So when we see someone like this getting treated very differently than if he were poor, black and held up a liquor store, it becomes apparent that we have a multi-tiered justice system -- and no superheroes coming to the rescue:"

Elizabeth Warren: Give Students Same Loan Rate as Big Banks

Elizabeth Warren: Give Students Same Loan Rate as Big Banks
"Senator Warren Introduces the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act, her first piece of stand-alone legislation, on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The bill would enable students who are eligible for federally subsidized Stafford loans to borrow at the same rate the big banks get through the Federal Reserve discount window."

Meet The Most Important Consumer Rights Bill That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Meet The Most Important Consumer Rights Bill That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: pIn 1925, Congress enacted what they thought was a modest law enabling sophisticated businesses to agree to resolve their disputes through private arbitration. Decades later, the Supreme Court transformed it into something completely different — enabling corporations to force workers and consumers into signing away their right to appear in a real court, and shunting [...]/p

WATCH Elizabeth Warren: Students Should Get ‘Same Deal’ On Interest Rates As Big Banks | Alternet

WATCH Elizabeth Warren: Students Should Get ‘Same Deal’ On Interest Rates As Big Banks | Alternet
"Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced her first bill in the Senate today, the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act, which would prevent Stafford loan interest rates from doubling this summer by dropping rates for one year from 3.4 percent to 0.75 percent, the rate at which the government loans money to big banks through the Federal Reserve discount window. If Congress fails to act by July 1 this year, interest rates on Stafford loans reserved for undergraduates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent."

Elizabeth Warren Introduces Bill To Give Students Same Rates As Big Banks

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How Your Tax Dollars Fund Bad, Low-Wage Jobs and Help Fuel Inequality | Alternet

How Your Tax Dollars Fund Bad, Low-Wage Jobs and Help Fuel Inequality | Alternet
"The vacuous, cheerful expression of the Walmart smiley face has long been associated with the paradoxically dark reality of low-wage work. With the recent fast-food worker walkouts in New York, the golden arches may go down, too, in the annals of class-war symbology. But a  report released Wednesday by the public policy organization Demos, reveals that there is one employer responsible for creating more low-wage jobs than Walmart and McDonald’s combined: Us."

Congress: Still Corporate. Still Criminal. Still Captured.

Congress: Still Corporate. Still Criminal. Still Captured.
"Here is the complete list of the Financial Services Committee members. The official twitter for the Republicans on the Committee is @FinancialCmte, and the twitter for the Democrats is @FSCDems. Wall Street still runs things, but it is worth letting our captured Congressmembers know that we are fully aware that Wall Street also owns them."

Our Elections Really Are Rigged—by Gerrymandering and Districting Abuses | The Nation

Our Elections Really Are Rigged—by Gerrymandering and Districting Abuses | The Nation
"Partisan redistricting—not just classic gerrymandering but a variety of structural factors—assures that the vast majority of congressional districts in the vast majority of states produce predictable results. Even if the candidate of the dominant party is flawed, even if a challenger has financial advantages, FairVote executive director Rob Richie reminds us that “partisanship is the dominant factor in determining election outcomes"."

PERRspectives: New House GOP Debt Ceiling Blackmail Demand? No Deficit Reduction!

PERRspectives: New House GOP Debt Ceiling Blackmail Demand? No Deficit Reduction!
"The latest GOP extortion couldn't come at a worse time. After all, the federal budget sequester which began in March is already slowing economic growth and costing American jobs. Meanwhile, the CBO and analysts like Goldman Sachs have forecast that Uncle Sam's rapidly shrinking annual budget deficits will soon put U.S. national debt levels on a sustainable path. (That reality even prompted House Speaker John Boehner and Budget Committee Chairman to admit that "we have no immediate debt crisis.") Now, two years after the GOP's first debt limit blackmail hammered consumer confidence and job growth, Republicans are preparing a new ransom note."

Seven Times Senate Republicans Demanded The Budget Process They Are Now Obstructing

Seven Times Senate Republicans Demanded The Budget Process They Are Now Obstructing: Senate Democrats passed a budget for the first time in four years earlier this year, a move that would seemingly please the Republicans who spent the last four years reminding everyone of the fact that the Senate hadn’t done so. But now, with the House and Senate sitting on differing budget proposals, Senate Republicans have [...]/p

Indispensable Guide: Where to Shop to Avoid Buying from Businesses that Endanger Workers | Alternet

Indispensable Guide: Where to Shop to Avoid Buying from Businesses that Endanger Workers | Alternet
"responsible shoppers want to avoid supporting companies that don't care about their employees. Here's how."

Opting Out of Wall Street and Building Sustainable, Resilient Communities: Remaking Finance, Part III

Opting Out of Wall Street and Building Sustainable, Resilient Communities: Remaking Finance, Part III
"Almost all Americans experience the predatory practices that have put the population in debt in order to meet basic needs for housing, education and health care."

Disaster Capitalism Strikes as Hedge Funds Circle Near-Bankrupt Municipalities Like Vultures | Common Dreams

Disaster Capitalism Strikes as Hedge Funds Circle Near-Bankrupt Municipalities Like Vultures | Common Dreams
"In Detroit, a once bustling city at the center of the US economy, the hedge fund vultures are circling.
But first, a moment of background, employing Naomi Klein's contemporary classic The Shock Doctrine, which tells the story of how purveyors of aggressive capitalism take advantage of crises and public vulnerability in order to push through neoliberal policies and profit-motivated financial arrangements."

Corporate Cowards Divert Shareholder Funds into “Dark Money” | Common Dreams

Corporate Cowards Divert Shareholder Funds into “Dark Money” | Common Dreams
"Why do corporations need a middleman? Because the ads are so partisan and vicious that they would appall and anger millions of customers, employees and shareholders of the corporation. So, rather than besmirch their own names, the corporate powers have meekly retreated behind the skirt of Republican political outfits like the Chamber."

10 Reasons Austerity Is a Crock | Alternet

10 Reasons Austerity Is a Crock | Alternet
"When we allow our economy to operate below full employment (as now), we are sacrificing trillions of dollars in lost output and income each year. We can never go back and recover it.  It is gone forever.  You’ve seen the debt clock?  Here’s the lost output clock."

America's No Worker's Paradise: In 49 of 50 States, You Can Be Fired For Any Reason | Alternet

America's No Worker's Paradise: In 49 of 50 States, You Can Be Fired For Any Reason | Alternet
"Outside of Montana, you can be fired for the color of your shirt, or even for refusing to fetch your boss a cup of coffee."

Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week

Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week
"Republicans are trying to pass an "alternative" to overtime pay. This is really about taking away the eight-hour workday and 40-hour workweek. Will weekends be next? What about an "alternative" to paying workers at all?

House Republicans are pushing a bill that takes away extra pay for overtime, substituting "comp" time instead."

Republican Court Says Employers Have A Constitutional Right To Keep Workers Ignorant Of Their Rights

Republican Court Says Employers Have A Constitutional Right To Keep Workers Ignorant Of Their Rights: Warning labels and notices are a common feature of American life. Federal law requires most groceries to display detailed information about their ingredients, calorie content, and other nutritional facts. Federal fuel economy labels inform car buyers how quickly their new vehicle will burn through gas. Surgeon general warnings inform smokers of the dangers presented by [...]/p

On Day Stock Market Sets New Record, Conservative Group Floats Impeaching Obama For ‘Wrecking The Stock Market’

On Day Stock Market Sets New Record, Conservative Group Floats Impeaching Obama For ‘Wrecking The Stock Market’: Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 15,056, an all-time record. For one conservative group, this can only mean one thing: it’s time to impeach President Obama. That was the message Capitol Hill Daily, a conservative publication based out of Baltimore, sent to Citizen United’s listserv today. They accused President Obama of “wreck[ing] the [...]/p

Republican Senate Nominee Funded Primarily By Wealthy Investors

Republican Senate Nominee Funded Primarily By Wealthy Investors: Gabriel Gomez, the Republican nominee to fill John Kerry’s open Senate seat in Massachusetts, often invokes his background in the private sector as a private equity investor. Perhaps as a result, his campaign has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from other venture capitalists, investors, and bankers — people likely to [...]/p

How Sequestration Is Devastating Programs That Aid Senior Citizens

How Sequestration Is Devastating Programs That Aid Senior Citizens: Last week, ThinkProgress spoke to directors of Meals on Wheels programs across the country, and they detailed how sequestration is cutting meal delivery and on-site meal services to needy seniors who may now have to go hungry. Since then, stories about sequestration’s harmful cuts to seniors have continued to pour in from across the country. [...]/p

Moody’s Playing Dangerous Games With Public Pension Funds

Moody’s Playing Dangerous Games With Public Pension Funds
"The bond-rating agency Moody's made itself famous for giving subprime mortgage backed securities triple-A ratings at the peak of the housing bubble. This made it easy for investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to sell these securities all around the world. And it allowed the housing bubble to grow ever bigger and more dangerous. And we know where that has left us.

Well, Moody's is back."

SCOTUS Loves Corporations...

Why ‘Flexibility’ Is An Unworkable Solution For Sequestration Budget Cuts

Why ‘Flexibility’ Is An Unworkable Solution For Sequestration Budget Cuts: In response to the outcry from business travelers, the airline industry, and others affected by growing flight delays, Congress stepped in last week to provide the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with “flexibility” to move funding around within the agency to avert scheduled furloughs of air-traffic controllers necessitated by the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration. [...]/p

Sequester Cuts to Emergency Unemployment Insurance Compensation will likely cost around 30,000 jobs | Economic Policy Institute

Sequester Cuts to Emergency Unemployment Insurance Compensation will likely cost around 30,000 jobs | Economic Policy Institute
"These cuts cause damage in two ways. Most obviously, they mean that unemployment insurance benefits now provide a weaker lifeline to the long-term unemployed and their families, despite the fact that job opportunities have improved very little since the unemployment rate peaked near the end of 2009. Less well understood is the fact that cutting unemployment insurance benefits will reduce spending in the economy and thereby cost jobs."

ALEC's Latest "Transparency" Move: Asserting Immunity From Freedom of Information Laws

ALEC's Latest "Transparency" Move: Asserting Immunity From Freedom of Information Laws
"ALEC legislators cannot have it both ways. They cannot use public money to attend ALEC meetings -- as the Republican-led South Dakota legislature recently approved -- or claim that accepting corporate-funded flights and hotel rooms for ALEC travel are part of their legitimate work responsibilities, then conspire with ALEC to hide documents and information from their constituents that should be accessible under freedom of information laws."

Budget Austerity Proved a Joke, But the US and Europe Won't Change Course | Common Dreams

Budget Austerity Proved a Joke, But the US and Europe Won't Change Course | Common Dreams
"It appears that the Reinhart-Rogoff battles over their faulty data about government debt have flamed out. Even the inventors of the 90% debt cliff are now anxious to portray themselves of cautious supporters of expansionary fiscal policy. This should mean that sober policy types everywhere can turn to the immediate problem of reducing unemployment with more expansionary fiscal policy.

Unfortunately, this does not appear likely to happen. Even though the case against fiscal policy has been blown to smithereens, there is little impulse in the United States or Europe to change course."

Your Retirement for a Bottle of Champagne: How Wall Street Fraudsters Ripped You Off, Again | Alternet

Your Retirement for a Bottle of Champagne: How Wall Street Fraudsters Ripped You Off, Again | Alternet
"To recap: Bank hustlers manipulated the world’s most important set of benchmark interest rates and thereby impacted the prices of upward of $500 trillion worth of financial instruments. The LIBOR scam devastated state and municipal budgets, squeezed pension yields and ripped off bank shareholders. In a case of jaw-dropping fraud, greedy traders rigged up the benchmark so that they could cash in on bets on derivatives, while banks submitted fake numbers to make themselves look financially healthier. One Barclays official was fond of fudging numbers in exchange for champagne. “Dude…I owe you big time!” gushed a trader in an email to Barclays’ Mr. Fix-It. “Come over one day after work and I'm opening a bottle of Bollinger."

That’s right. A bottle of bubbly for a scam that screwed your grandma on her retirement savings."

Why It's Going Cost a Lot of Money to Cut Meals on Wheels' Budget—Sequester Takes America Further Down the Hole | Alternet

Why It's Going Cost a Lot of Money to Cut Meals on Wheels' Budget—Sequester Takes America Further Down the Hole | Alternet
"Cutting Meals On Wheels doesn’t save the government a dime, it costs $489 million a year. Cutting IRS obviously increases the deficit because it lowers tax revenue. Other cuts also increase spending. All obviously hurt the economy. Tell me again, what’s the justification for this? Repeal this foolish and unjustified sequester."

Banks Sued For Flagrant Violations

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Wisconsin Bill Would Treat Organic Milk, Sharp Cheddar, Brown Eggs as "Junk Food"

Wisconsin Bill Would Treat Organic Milk, Sharp Cheddar, Brown Eggs as "Junk Food"
"Wisconsin ranks 44th in the nation for new job creation. Rather than rolling up their sleeves and finding new and innovative ways to help create jobs, the Wisconsin legislature is spending its time telling people needing food assistance what they should be eating. AB 110, which will be up for a vote in the Assembly on Tuesday, May 7, is geared toward limiting "the amount of food stamp benefits that could be spent on junk food." But some of the fine print of the bill, bizarrely, would ban people from choosing more healthy and less expensive options for their families. The bill is one of many being considered that are unduly punitive of the poor."

Who’s Murdering Small Business in America?

Who’s Murdering Small Business in America?
"So, Conservatives can try to blame Obama, smokestack regulations, and Obamacare for the death of small business in America all they want, but anybody who knows history knows otherwise.

Reaganomics killed small business."

Florida Legislature Tells Poor People to F*ck Off and Die

Florida Legislature Tells Poor People to F*ck Off and Die
"As I predicted awhile back, Kochheads in Florida have managed to step between poor people and health care by yanking puppet strings in the Florida legislature to block Rick Scott's proposed Medicaid expansion. See how that works? Rick Scott looks magnanimous because AFP and the Florida legislature gave him cover to pretend like Medicaid would be expanded."

Neither Admit Nor Deny: Big Business Allowed To Pay Millions to Avoid Jail | Common Dreams

Neither Admit Nor Deny: Big Business Allowed To Pay Millions to Avoid Jail | Common Dreams
"Record fines adding up to $36 billion have been paid out in the last 12 years by multinational corporations to the U.S. government to settle charges of corruption and fraud. But are they getting away with a slap on the wrist to avoid prosecution for major crimes?"